​While she has taught preaching at a number of schools, including Chicago Theological Seminary and Yale Divinity School, she can’t be held responsible for everyone who falls asleep in church. ​​

Lillian Daniel has spoken at the National Cathedral, Duke Chapel, Kings College, London and Queen’s College, Ontario, but on Sundays you can find her preaching at First Congregational Church in Dubuque, Iowa.

Featured in the New York Times and on PBS, ​Lillian Daniel’s writing is described as​“biting, hilarious, pitch perfect, tender, and often stunningly beautiful.”

“The book is kind of for the person who in some ways is half in and half out of religion,” Ms. Daniel said in a recent interview. 'They know it might be meaningful, but they don’t know how to make a case for it, or tell a story about the religious life that does not sound obnoxious or judgmental.'

Ms. Daniel, by contrast, makes the case forcefully, seemingly unworried about those she might offend."

Mark Oppenheimer, The New York TimesWhen "Spiritual But Not Religious" Is Not Enough is a feast of words — funny, ribald, tiptoeing to the edge of sarcasm, yet full of love and unflinching hope."